• My blood surges, my heart beat quickens, I can see her walking towards me. The way she moves, how her hips sway and her hair flows back behind her from the wind as she tries to hold it down. She is looking down but I can see a hint of a coy smile teasing me at the corner of her lips, though it was not meant for me to see. She glances up as she approaches and drops her gaze again blushing as I look into her eyes. She is almost upon me, little more than a yard away. She walks faster now and begins to open her arms to the one she loves. But I am crushed to see her pass me by, less than an inch away, to embrace the man standing behind me. I knew she was not coming towards me. I knew that he was standing right behind me. But I cannot help but to hope each day as I stand in that same spot watching as she walks by and wishing that one day it truly will be me she is after. But for now all I can do is wish, and wait, and survive.